Humanity is now at the early beginning of the deep learning revolution in AI, started by NSFresearch grant 0835878 to Andrew Ng, Ed Boyden, Yann LeCun and Yang Dan in 2008. (Fordetails, see werbos.com/Mind.htm.) The Science News story "Probing Human Mind and FutureInfrastructure Systems, October 3, 2008, described that grant, and the new direction in AI whichgave rise to the COPN program -- cognitive optimization and prediction. Werbos, P. J., it uses quantum superposition to solve theseminimization problems, and, unlike the core of the DWave architecture, uses true physicalannealing to optimize N continuous complex variables. Considerable evidence nowdemonstrates the generality of the method, which does for quantum learning what deep learning did for Turing machines.
Paul Werbos (2026) studied this question.